Canals: The Making Of A Nation
Canals: The Making Of A Nation is a documentary on Yesterday. Liz McIvor explores the nation's canal system, examining its heritage and future. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 6 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2024.
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30:00Canals: The Making Of A Nation
How Birmingham led the way in urban regeneration, turning canals and their immediate surroundings from places to be avoided to places to be enjoyed.
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30:00Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats, who during the Victorian era gained reputations for criminality, violence and drinking.
25:00Liz McIvor examines the Manchester Ship Canal. Hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the Victorian age.
35:00Liz McIvor recounts the story of 'canal mania' - a boom period of frenzied activity that helped develop Britain's modern financial economy, now centred in London.
25:00Liz McIvor discovers how carving up the landscape in order to build canals helped man's understanding of the earth below.
25:00Liz McIvor tells the story of the early canal builders who struggled with the rugged terrain of England's Pennine hills.